Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers by Anne Reus

Name: Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers by Anne Reus
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

This book examines Virginia Woolf\u2019s influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters including Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bront\u00EB, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward through her journalism. Woolf\u2019s responses to her literary predecessors provide new insights into her self-positioning within the literary canon and the interplay of biographical innovation and Victorian legacies in her non-fiction. This study demonstrates that Victorian narratives and tropes of female professionalism continue to shape Woolf\u2019s representations of nineteenth-century women writers even at the heyday of her Modernist fame. It contextualizes the overt feminism of A Room of One\u2019s Own within Woolf\u2019s more ambiguous literary\n\nVirginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers\nVictorian Legacies and Literary Afterlives\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with f;